Registration-card holder



March 16 1926.

H. ANPERSON ET AL REGISTRATION cum HOLDER Filed March 7, 1925 INVENTORS. flar/y Andersory, Geo/ye I4. I. flack BY at? a ATTORNEY.

I OU Patented Mar. 16, 1926.

HARRY ANDERSON AND GEORGE "W. V. ,HAOKETT, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

REGISTRATION-CARD HOLDER.

To all whom it may cancer 21 Be it known that we, HARRY Annnnson and Gnonen W. V. Haonnrr, both citizensof the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Registration-Card Holders, of which the follmving is a specification.

This invention is a holder and protector for a card such as the automobile registration card, which, by law in some States, is required to be conspicuously posted in the automobile; and it is the object of the in vention to provide a holder which may be mounted on the steering post of the automobile so as to conveniently display the same.

It is a furtherobject of the invention to provide a holder which will clearly display the card beneath a transparent protector; and which will securely hold the assembled parts against displacement while permitting ready removal and replacement of the card when so desired.

It is a still further object of the invention to provide a detachable clamping support for the card holder so that the entire structure may be quickly mounted on a steering post or removed therefrom.

The invention will be readily understood from the following description of the aocompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1- is a front elevation of an automobile steering post showing the card holder mounted thereon.

Fig. 2. is a side elevation of the steering post and card holder.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on the line 44 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view of the card holder with the parts disengaged for insertion of a card.

In the drawings the usual steering post of the bracket on the steering post, as for ex ample by a screw 6 loosely received through one of said lips and threaded into the other as shown at 7.

The card holder comprises a frame adapt ed to receive a registration card or the like,

and having attaching means at the rear thereof, shown as a hook 8, adapted to be received over the bracket 2 prior to the clamp ing thereof on the steering post, so that when the bracket is subsequently clamped in place, the hook 8 will be tightly held between the bracket and the steering post for rigidly supporting the card holder.

The frame of the card holder is arranged for convenient insertion of a card therein, and is adapted to securely hold the card in place. As an instance of this arrangement a backing 9, preferably of metal, is provided with reversely bent lips 10 extending for a short distance over the front of the backing at its sides and at one end, so as to permit insertion of a card at the opposite open end of the backing with the edges of the card received in the grooves formed by lips 10.

The book 81nay form an integral part of backing 9, and is shown as a strip bent rearwardly from the medial portion of the backing and forming the depending tongue of the hook.

In practice a sheet of heavy cardboard or the like shown at 11, is preferably first mounted on backing 9 with its edges beneath lips 10, and the registration card or the like shown at 12, is received against said cardboard sheet with its edges in the retaining grooves formed by the lips. A protector, shown as a transparent sheet 13 of celluloid or the like, is preferably mounted over the registration card and is also held in place by inserting its edges in the grooves formed beneath lips 10.

The cardboard backing, the registration card, and its transparent protector are held in place on the backing 9 with their edges in the side and end grooves, by a locking strip 14,- which is detachably mounted at the endof backing 9 having no lip 10, after insertion of the card.

The locking strip is preferably arranged to telescope between the end of backing 9 and the cardboard sheet 11, and its outer edge forms a reversely bent lip 15 extending a short distance over the front of the strip and forming a groove in which the ends of the registration card and its backing and protecting sheets are received when mounted in the card frame.

The strip Lt may be removably fixed in its telescoped locking position, by tabs 16 preferably forming integral extensions of the side lips 10 and adapted to be bentover the locking strip as shown in 3. The strip l l may be readily released for Withdrawal thereof from backing 9 when the registration card 12 isto be removed or replaced. by restraig'htening the tabs 16 and thus disengaging the same from the locking strip as shown in Fig.

We claim:

1. A card holder comprisinga frame having grooved edges adapted to receive a card in said grooves. one of the grooved edges being detachable from the "frame. and the ends of the grooved edges meeting the ends of the detachable grooved edge being extended to vform tabs adapted to be bent over the detachable grooved edge for releasably fixing the same relative to the frame.

"2. A card holder comprising a frame having grooved edges adapted to receive a card in said grooves, one of said grooved edges being detachable from the frame, and adapted to slide into the space between the frame and the back of said card and the ends of the grooved edges which meet said detachable grooved edge being extended to form tabs adapted to be bent over said detacl'iable grooved edge for releasablylixing the same relative to the frame.

In testimony \vhereot \ve have'al'lixed our signatures to this specification.

HARRY ANDERSON. GEORGE W. V. 'HACK'ETI. 

